Lead Data Architect

Inadev is seeking a highly experienced Lead Data Architect to define and drive the data architecture for the SEC’s EDGAR program. This role will lead the design and modernization of highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms using AWS cloud services and open-source database technologies.

Inadev is seeking a highly experienced Lead Data Architect to define and drive the data architecture for the SEC’s EDGAR program. This role will lead the design and modernization of highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms using AWS cloud services and open-source database technologies.

The Lead Data Architect will establish data architecture standards, guide database modernization and migration, and work closely with application architects, engineers, Dev Sec Ops  teams, cybersecurity personnel, and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise data architecture experience with deep hands‑on expertise in PostgreSQL, AWS, data modeling, database performance, and cloud-native architecture.

• Define and maintain the EDGAR enterprise data architecture and modernization roadmap.
• Establish architectural standards and patterns for relational, transactional, analytical, and distributed data workloads.
• Lead logical and physical data modeling across EDGAR applications and services.
• Define database design, partitioning, indexing, replication, availability, backup, recovery, and retention strategies.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews and provide technical direction to engineering teams.
• Establish standards for data quality, integrity, lineage, security, and lifecycle management.

• Architect cloud-native database solutions using AWS and PostgreSQL/open-source technologies.
• Design solutions using technologies such as Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, AWS DMS, AWS Glue, and related AWS data services.
• Define patterns for highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and recoverable database environments.
• Evaluate database workload requirements and recommend appropriate storage, replication, caching, and performance strategies.
• Support infrastructure automation and repeatable deployment of database environments.

• Lead database modernization from legacy platforms to AWS-hosted open-source database technologies.
• Define migration, transformation, reconciliation, and validation approaches.
• Develop strategies to minimize application disruption and migration risk.
• Partner with application teams to identify and remediate database dependencies, incompatible features, stored procedures, schemas, and data-access patterns.
• Establish performance baselines and validate migrated database workloads.

• Establish database performance engineering and optimization practices.
• Lead analysis of complex database performance and scalability issues.
• Define monitoring, observability, capacity, availability, backup, and disaster-recovery requirements.
• Support architecture for mission-critical workloads requiring high levels of reliability and data integrity.

• Define database security architecture including encryption, access controls, secrets management, auditing, and data protection.
• Ensure data architecture aligns with SEC security and federal compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and Dev Sec Ops  teams to incorporate security controls throughout the data lifecycle.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to database engineers, developers, and data specialists.
• Collaborate with application, cloud, integration,…